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HYREX
The Hydrological Radar Experiment (HYREX) was a UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Special Topic which ran from May 1993 to April 1997. The broad aim of HYREX was to gain a better understanding of rainfall variability, as sensed by weather radar, and how this variability impacts on river flow at the catchment scale. Six projects were funded involving groups from the Institute of Hydrology, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the universities of London (Imperial College and University College), Newcastle, Reading (including the Joint Centre for Mesoscale Meteorology or JCMM) and Salford. Theprojects ranged from research on improved precipitation measurement using polarisation and vertical pointing radars, through network design of radar/raingauge networks and spatial-temporal modelling of rainfall fields, to rainfall orecasting based on stochastic and meteorological concepts. An overview of the six HYREX projects and a list of the members of the HYREX Steering Committee are available as separate documents. Contact: Anne Roberts E-mail: ajr@ua.nwl.ac.uk E-Mail: A.Roberts@unixa.nerc-wallingford.ac.uk Institute of Hydrology Maclean Building Crowmarsh Gifford Wallingford Oxfordshire OX10 8BB UK [Text adapted from the BADC Home Page]